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Podcast: What happened with nuclear energy at COP29?

 

Did the COP29 climate conference achieve its goals? What role did nuclear energy play in the event? Why was so much focus already turning to COP30, which is due to take place in Brazil in 2025?

published on: 12/2/2024written by: World Nuclear News
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Jonathan Cobb, senior programme leader, climate, at World Nuclear Association, was in Baku, Azerbaijan, and he tells the World Nuclear News podcast that although there was no direct reference to nuclear energy in the agreement eventually reached at COP29, there was further progress among the "coalition of the willing" with six more countries signing up to the New Zero Nuclear goal of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050.

You can listen to the full interview on all good podcast platforms or via the embedded player on this page. An edited digest of the interview with Cobb is  https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/what-happened-with-nuclear-energy-at-cop29

published on: 12/2/2024written by: World Nuclear News
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